Novel 1984 By Winston: Series Of Questions

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: 1984 In the novel 1984 Winston lives on the seventh floor and there is television that dominates the room, placed on the opposite side of the wall (Maguire). The device is used to monitor the subjects and this creates an angry mood. Winston works at the ministry of truth and this gives a depressive mood relative to the fact that he is forced to lie to the people about the Party. The apartment at Charrington is much better than what he had before which gives a relaxed mood and an element of happiness ("Ministry Of Truth"). At the ministry of love nothing changed much; ‘Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue.’ (Orwell) At the ministry of love, Winston is faced with a sad mood from the experiences (Guo). ‘The beatings grew less frequent, and became mainly a threat, a horror to which he could be sent back at any moment when his answers were unsatisfactory.’ (Orwell) At the Winston apartment on the seventh floor, there is a strong smell of boiled cabbage and even rag mat. ‘The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.’ The room was also dingy and intimidating. ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.’ (Orwell) On the other hand, the ministry of love is masked with the strong smell of cold sweat. The Charrington is also seen to have more space compare to the previous one (Oliver). The INGSOC government is controlling the people in reference to their psychology, such as the fact that they being monitored. The sought after power by all means. ‘The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.’  (Orwell) Emotionally the government controls through turning the families from their members. Physically, the government uses prisons and beating to put in line the citizens. ‘They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning.’ (Orwell) The newspeak was the official language that was being used in Oceania and was developed with the purpose of meeting the needs of INGSOC with reference to English socialism. ‘Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed -- and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life.’ (Orwell) While people were expected to use the language to communicate, it was of limited vocabulary and restricted grammar and even the freedom of thought. ‘The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out 'Swine! Swine! Swine!' and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.’ (Orwell) ("Useful Quotes From 1984") Doublespeak was a language that would distort the meaning of words. The crimestop in the novel relates to the element of mental discipline for the good party members (Kakutani). The removal of words from the language is so that they can reduce the number of words in the language, for example the wood good would have the w...